About this Website
This website provides information on the tricolored blackbird (Agelaius tricolor), a near-endemic California passerine and the most colonial songbird in North America. We seek to develop a site with content appropriate for the largest audience, with basic natural history and conservation information, access to reports, images and videos, links to tricolors in the news, summaries of past and current research and monitoring efforts, and data entry capability for participants in the triennial tricolored blackbird Survey (an every three year volunteer effort to estimate the number of tricolors in California) and persons observing color-banded tricolors.
2008 Statewide Survey
On April 25th – 27th volunteers from all over California are helping Audubon California and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conduct the 2008 statewide survey for Tricolored Blackbirds. These citizen scientists have volunteered to visit past breeding sites and survey other areas around their counties to document the presence and number of breeding Tricolored Blackbirds across the state. This survey is providing critical information on the status of Tricolored Blackbird populations in California.
Acknowledgments
Support for the development of this website has been provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Biological Information Infrastructure.
Collaborators on this website include the Information Center for the Environment (U.C. Davis), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Audubon California, the California Department of Fish & Game, Sustainable Conservation, PRBO Conservation Science, and Ted Beedy.
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